People v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently August 2008
21 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Uphoff v. Industrial Board · Hoyne v. Danisch · State Public Utilities Commission v. Monarch Refrigerating Co. · People v. Price · Village of Ridgway v. County of Gallatin
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The real purpose and intent of the legislature will. prevail over the literal import of the words. ... It is a principle of construction that statutes must. be interpreted according to their intention and meaning and not always according to the letter. That which is within the intention is within the statute though not within the letter, and that which may be within the letter is not within the statute unless within the intention.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.